rudolph giuliani. did ryan push the right buttons? i'll talk to my all-star team and i'll talk to one of the top people in the obama campaign. we begin with paul ryan. listen to some of it in his own words. >> after four years of getting the run-around, america needs a turn-around and the man for the job is governor mitt romney. >> we will not duck the tough issues. we will lead. we will not spend the next four years blaming others. we will take responsibility. we will not try to replace our founding principles. we will reapply our founding principles. the work ahead will be hard. these times demand the best of all of us. all of us, but we can do this. we can do this. together, we can do this. let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done! >> that's what everyone here is about. i don't think anyone here as you can tell. one of our contributors, it is buzzing, exciting. people here i think feel they've been energized document. this is the man i want to talk to. america's man, rudolph giuliani. how are you? >> i'm very e

america's man, rudolph giuliani. how are you? >> i'm very excited. i was very uplifted by tonight's speeches. particularly paul ryan and condoleezza rice. i thought they hit home runs. >> they certainly got e going but it was all about paul ryan. >> of course. he's the man mitt romney has chosen for running mate. what are the buttons you think he hit? >> first he was attacked for wanting to kill medicare. he made it very, very clear with his mom there that he believes in medicare. what he wants to do is preserve it. i think he killed that lie immediately. i think he showed the wisdom of governor romney's choice. that this is a man who really understands our budget. understands our economy. feels very, very strongly about our country. and i mean, put it simply, what he said was you have a choice. you can build up government to try to solve the problem or you can put money back into the hands of private people and let them rebuild our economy. i think americans will choose the second. that's essentially what we are. we're essentially a private economy.

americas mayor, time magazine's person of the year paul rudolph giuliani endorsed by people like senator david of louisiana, rick perry, governor of texas pat robertson. they knew he was a catholic with k friends and pulled -- pro-choice. he hates liberals. he can win. it put money on the line for him. people put in an online. he never made it through the starting gate perry he just fizzled so badly. all the way through 2011 when the experts at national journal, november 9 of 2011, the experts at the national journal on the political pull or asked for all the democratic in the. worse than expected was senator obama. better than expected with senator cohen. two days later she lost. she blew it at the iowa jefferson. so there is a lot -- we have to understand, there is a lot more contingency. as i started to work on the campaigns, one of the first things i realized, it sounds awfully simple, but it's not. there really are only three campaigns for president. there is the challenger from the party out of power, and there is either an incumbent trying to hold and defend the white house for a

." >> the campaign manager for rudolph giuliani in 2008, political director for john mccain, political strategist for chris christie has joined us. maybe you could jump in because you work for a candidate who has had enormous success at bonding emotionally with middle-class voters. when you look at what mitt romney has to do tonight, in some ways, you could argue that is the greatest vulnerability -- the combination of his own actions and the obama campaign has created for him. the deficit he has with "people like me" in the polling. what can he do in his own speech, and how can they try to narrow that in the time they have left? >> i think showing who he is, and the perspective that most regular voters are just tuning in right now for the first time. during the entire convention week and especially tonight, i think people will get a chance to see governor romney for who he is. they already made their decision about whether they like or do not like president obama. what i hope we will see is who governor romney really is. i think as people get to see who he is as a person -- they alrea